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Trump will now sign a bill into law in which Congress has laid out its mandates for the spending of taxpayer funds, and then announce he will ignore that law, declare an "emergency" and decide on his own how to spend taxpayer funds, using the military as his contractor ...?

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A national emergency declaration for a non-emergency is not legal. @realDonaldTrump is trying to get around our constitutional and thinks we’re stupid enough not to notice. Not today. We won’t stand for this #FakeNationalEmergency.

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Trump is now talking about the people who support his “national emergency” and he listed off Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson & Laura Ingraham. Our country is being run by a fake president and a fake news organization so of course we now have a #FakeNationalEmergency.

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Trump went from saying "Mexico will lay for the wall", then "I will own the shut down and show you how its done" to now "I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster," .... he's some type of negotiator I tell ya!

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Here’s a real national emergency & one the President could actually fix without a Rose Garden speech or formal declaration - stop kidnapping children at the border & return the ones we’ve separated to their families #FamiliesBelongTogetherhttps://t.co/GvJHlNi8rv

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Continue reading #FAKENationalEmergency: Y’all President Will Do And Say Anything To Get His Wall Built

#FAKENationalEmergency: Y'all President Will Do And Say Anything To Get His Wall Built

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After lying to his MAGA supporters that Mexico was pay for a massive wall on the Mexican-United States border and then not being able to persuade Congress to later fund it, President Trump did the unthinkable.
According to Time, on the lawn of the White House Rose Garden, he declared a national emergency in a press conference on Friday, which will allow him to access $8 billion to build his border wall without approval from Congress.
Folks, his announcement was nothing short of a rambling spectacle filled with lies and unsubstantiated false claims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU3AbY9E5_8
“We’re going to be signing today and registering national emergency,” he said.
“And it's a great thing to do, because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people and it's unacceptable. And by signing the national emergency, something signed many times by other presidents, many, many times, President Obama, in fact, we may be using one of the national emergencies that he signed having to do with cartels, criminal cartels. It's a very good emergency that he signed ... And what we really want to do is simple. It's not like it is complicated. It's very simple. We want to stop drugs from coming into our country. We want to stop criminals and gangs from coming into our country. Nobody has done the job that we have ever done.”
Sir, what?
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As The Atlantic pointed out, in the same breath, "Trump also undermined his own case for the national emergency, effectively saying the declaration was all about political expediency."
“I can do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this. I would rather do it much faster,” the president said, an astonishing acknowledgment that could come back to haunt him in court.
So...which one is it?
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Time also reported that Trump "will also be able to use $2.5 billion from the Defense Department’s drug interaction program and $600 million from the Treasury Department’s drug forfeiture fund. Administration officials said Trump’s goal is to build 234 miles of a border wall."
Before #45 could even finish his announcement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a statement criticizing the President.
“The President’s emergency declaration, if unchecked, would fundamentally alter the balance of powers, inconsistent with our country’s vision,” they said.
“We call upon our Republican colleagues to join us to defend the constitution.”
In the wake of today's announcement, it's believed that multiple lawsuits will be filed against Trump, which he admitted he expects, along with both Congress and Senate approving a joint resolution rejecting the declaration, which Trump would most likely veto.
While time will only tell us how this will all play out, here's what folks are saying about this #FakeNationalEmergency right now.